10 Facts About Luc-Normand Tellier

Luc-Normand Tellier was born on October 10,1944 and is a Professor Emeritus in spatial economics of the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Luc-Normand Tellier obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's degree in City planning from the University of Montreal, as well as a master's degree and a Ph.

Luc-Normand Tellier was chairman of that department for 13 years as well as, from 1981 to 1983, the director of the "Urbanisation" research center of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Luc-Normand Tellier was granted the title of "Professor Emeritus" of the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2012.

In 1985, in a book entitled Economie spatiale: rationalite economique de l'espace habite, Luc-Normand Tellier formulated an all-new problem called the "attraction-repulsion problem", which constitutes a generalization of both the Fermat and Weber problems.

In 1989, Luc-Normand Tellier resorted to the attraction-repulsion problem to elaborate a new type of demo-economic model, the topodynamic model, which is not econometric, and which was developed before the emergence of the New Economic Geography.

In 1995, Luc-Normand Tellier wrote a paper with Claude Vertefeuille introducing the concept of topodynamic inertia, and laying a mathematical basis for that concept.

In 1997, Luc-Normand Tellier published another paper that introduced the concept of topodynamic corridors, and the idea of a new section of economic sciences intended to complete microeconomics, meso-economics and macroeconomics.

In 2005 and 2009, Luc-Normand Tellier published a book that reinterpreted the urban world history in the light of the topodynamic theory he had previously developed.

Parallel to his works in spatial economics, Luc-Normand Tellier published in 1987 a book about the Le Luc-Normand Tellier clan, which was one of the two main clans that struggled for obtaining the favors of the king of France at Versailles during the 17th and 18th centuries.